... 3 PAROCMAL BoAnD.-At a special meeting oi M ?? Parochial Board, held yesterday morning, ai ?? William Kilpatrick, solicitor and banker Ce was unanimously appointed chairman of, the i tBoard, and alsc delegate to the 1yle Union d, Poorhouse Board, in room of the late ?? A Mk-Lacneille. A minute expressive of regret at the L i death of the late chairman was agreed to. The bc i Ohairman intimated ...

... the red GOBEEXOOS. red The storm has at length exhausted Ls itself, and while yesterday was very dis- =. agreeable out of doors, the high wind had (30 greatly subsided inside the Cumbrae Heads. le On Monday night the Allan steamer Canaian d 2 (Captain 'Lean) arrived at the Tail-oi-the der Bank from Montreal, and reports having lost 194 from her decks 64 of 199 head-of cattle while coming up ...

... -CLOSE-- O8-ALMON- ANGLnqd AND- GROUSE SHOOTING.l ?? , .. _ \ . . . ?? I (rouP0r ORr SPOfLTiGG COOREsSONDJ.T SA1!O angling, itmay be laid, hab closed for the seasonL 'Close tiie-began on ?? I rivers on the Slat iit., and after the Soth current the waters-if the Tweed ?? u for c a period of two months. Grouse ehonizig'has ot 'I yet-legally terminated for the season, b4itWilA do so on, the 10th ...

... GREENOCFN SMnooT, Bo1n POSEcUTIOxNs.-Au nmberofde, faulting parents were before Sheriff Smith yester- day, at the instance of the School Boar4, charged IwithR neglecting to edueate their' codild -Mrf Stewart prosccuted. David James Hamilton W55 charged with neglecting to- end: -id daiighter Mary Jane, aged 6, toh-actuL Mt Stronh, who appear$ for the accused, lodged as an objection that his ...

... MERCHANTS' HOUSE. The report by the Lord Dean of Guild and directors of the Merchants' House of Glasgow to theforthcominngannua1 maeeting has just beeonisued. 01 Venrake thefoliowing extracts:-Tl'aeordisaryre- in ceipts for the year ending 313G August last have de amounted to £5292 ls 01d. It extraordinary receipts ha-se amounted to £526 Is-in all, £5B81 L9s OW. The expenditure has amounted to ...

... TM; COURT. 5 Balmoral, October 3. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Beatrice, drove to Abergeldie 3Msins at 10 o'clock this X morninrv The Rev. A. Campbell, of Crathie, conducted a short service in the room in which the remains of Sir Thomas Bidddulph were placed, at which Her - Majesty and Princess Beatrice were present, with Lady Biddulpb. The remains were afterwards F taken to the railway ...

... FISHIda L00flTo2v !.-The weather was a dead ca2m eterdsy, with aseyere thunderstorm and heavy rain- Baskets were with hcay, e zollvin being the ressorts from each of the besats enpza;- Troute Lbsa .t MrSmlth,.Erlghtas_..~ 7 6 S J hr Paterson, Edinburgh. . 10 8 O 1 SleD. F. Scott, Edinburgh ?? a 9 f, Mr Mathewson, Df aetrmne, came In the ?? nghz wnt t, ni trom; tweighing Mb _ GOLF. EaE GoLF ...

... LUNACY ACCO IfODAtION IN ' LA1REKSH ' i P,R~ MEL'T A dTUW The ehauge in the constitutifa of thef f LtaArcy Board for Iltarkshire faing to be made under the Prisons (Scotland) Act S of last yea; and the necessity for deal- ing Qn a more comprehensive sale with the J requirements of the county, are likely to halie i important resiXt. Formerly, the District Board consisted of a coaitte of the ...

... RUTH.ERGLEN '1'OWN COU-CIL. Last night the usual monthly meeting took plne -Provost Ury presiding. After the minutes of last meeting had been read, as ?? various com- 1 mittee meetinrs, the Council first considered the cemetery question. The Provost stated that they 1 met wvith Mr Reid and his agents, but had come to: no agreement. A loog discussion took place, in' which it was stated that Air ...

... THROUGHI THE DARK CONTINENT. |I .a GLSGOW SCI--n. LECTURr The present session's course of Lectures, arrangted by the G lasgow Science Lectures' Aesocia tibo, wfas inauguarated last night in the City [tsll. An audience which crowdeds~tbe hal in every part assem bled fur soae time previons to the hour for the commencement of proceedings, and outside a crowd was gathered which would have ...

... The Capital of Strathearn, as its inhabi- et tants proudly call the little town of Crieff, is a IT very attractive little town-like Zoar, set on a hill, and 'but a little one, yet with advan- Ci tages denied to many larger cities. Its position reminds one of Pistoja, lying on the sunny slope be of the Apennines; and the valley of the E'arn, I on which (Jrieff looks down as Pistoja looks ...

... THfl LNES IN THE NORTH BLOCKm. COLLISIONS ON THE MERSEY. On Saturday last the Clyde was frozen over for about half-a-mile down. the river from Car- myle, and a large number of people took advan- tage of the smoother parts of the ice for skating. Several rinks of local curlers were kept up till e after darkness had set in. This is the first time e the river has been used for curling at this ...